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With reference to Bram Stokers DraculaStokers monstrous figure Count Dracula has today reached epic and almost mythical proportions like Frankestein not the doctor the Gordon Medusa even Virginia Woolf thanks to Albee Like the aforementioned examples what we associate in our minds to be these monsters mostly conditioned by popular culture and Hollywood are merely visual representation In the novel itself however according to other essayists who have thoroughly examined this piece Dracula represents an entire genre of thinking and human development concentrated in the prose of literatureMark M Hennelly Jr identifies Dracula as an allegory of rival epistimologies in quest of a gnosis which will rehabilitate the Victorian wasteland and as its conclusion dramatizes this rehabilitation demands a transfusion the metaphor is inevitable from the blood-knowledge of Dracula Literature of the Occult 140 By the Victorian wasteland the essayist here is referring the superfluity and the redundancy of the Victorians particularly the nouveau riche and the middle class The homes of these upper classes are lacking space as much as the small rooms in which the proletariat are forced to stay the former lack space because of an accumulation of furniture and objects the latter because of the smallness of the rooms themselves The epistimologies in rival are the rational and the irrational Beneath the ordered society of his time each novelist of the Irrational say an unordered chaos a world disintegrating a new order waiting to be established Literature of the Occult 143 This duality between the rational and the irrational could only be captured in a novel that is unmistakably Gothic and RomanticThe novel begins with a travel diary Dracula Between Tradition and Modernism 35 of Jonothan Harkens the young British lawyer who has been hired to handle Count Draculas estate Particularly Count Draculas strange castle which stands at the edge of a cliff Jonothan Harkens becomes a prisoner Dracula 47 in this enormous tower in which there are no servants Dracula

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